Improved machine for handling or piling brick



@nimh fait?? @anni @fitta JAMES SV'ANGSTER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.' Letters Pate-nt No. 73,123, ma January 7, 186s.

IMPnovD' .MACHINE Por HANDLING or. FILING' BRICK.

TO ALL WHOM IT'MAY CONCERN-z Be it known that I, JAMES SANGSTER, of Bua'lo, in the county of Erie, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Device or Machine for Handling or Piling Brick or other forms; and I do hereby declare that the following specification or description is sudiciently clear und exact to enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains, o r to which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partiof this specification or description, in which-f Figure 1 is a plan view. l

Figure 2 is a side-elevation. A v

Thenature of my invention consists 1n, first, the construction or arrangement of a movable partition or partitions'withthe frame, or that part surrounding the said movable partition; second, in the combination, with the said movable partitions, ofmovable handles, by means of which the said partitions may he made to move together, and clasp lor hold the brick, or release it, as desired.

In said drawings, in which similar parts in the several figures are designated by similari-letters, A` represents the frame, B` the movable partition or partitions, the ends of which are made to move in a groove or slots in said frame A, substantially as shown in iig. 2`bythe letters B. Grepresents a spring or springs for forcing thesaid partition or partitions apart, so as to release the brick. I have shown spiral springs, but a iat'spring may be used in their place, if desired. The letters C represent the handles. They are fastened tothe frame by the joints, as shown at H H, in iig. 2, and are arranged so as to` swing upon said joints. D represents a pin or bolt or bolts. They arermly fastened to the rst movable partition or partitions atl each end of the frame, and so arranged as to allowithe pins or bolts D and partitions B, to which they areV fastened, to be moved by the handle or handles C. l

The operation of my improved device or machine for handling or piling brick or other forms is as follows: The handles C, being open in the position as shown in iig. 1 by the lletter I, allow the partitions 'to be separated or pushed apart from each other by means of springs, or anylother suitable means for accomplishing the same result, and leave the machine open, so that it may be set ,down over the brick as they come from the machine', either two or three at a time, or more, the number of partitions B being regulated by the number of bricks to be lifted. The handles C, being moved up into the positionl shown in iig.'2, 'force the partitions and the brick which are enclosed between them-toward 'each other, thus holding them irmly inlplace, as shown in iig. 2 by the letter K. In this position they maybe carried ed' and placed on the pile' to dry, or to be otherwise disposed of.

What lI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The partitions B, when made movable bymeans of the handles C and pins D, substantially as and for the pu'rposes herein described. I

2. In combination with the above, I claim the springs Gr, so arranged as to force said partitions B apart,

substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein described.

i I y vJAMES SANGSTER.

Witnesses:

J oIIN W BnnNrNsLL, HUGH L. GIBBs. 

